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Chief Justice Roberts Rebukes Trump Call to Impeach Judges for Rulings — Trump Says Xi Will Visit Washington in ‘Not Too Distant Future’ — Trump Branding Migrants as Criminals Is Complicating Plans to Bring Them Home — Guatemala wants to help returning migrants prepare for a new life …
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Chief justice pushes back against calls to impeach judges who rule against Trump — Chief Justice John Roberts issued a statement following President Donald Trump's call for a judge to be impeached for ruling against the administration. — WASHINGTON — Chief Justice John Roberts issued …
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‘Move Fast’: Inside Team Trump's Furious Defiance of the Courts — Trump's advisers are attacking judges for daring to “control” him. The president wants the one objecting to his deportation plans to be “IMPEACHED!!!” — During the past two months of Donald Trump and Elon Musk's power grabs …
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This is why Kamala Harris really lost — Democrats have spent months debating how and why they lost the 2024 election. But the full picture of what happened on Election Day is only now coming into view. — The most authoritative election analyses draw on a variety of different data sources …
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Democrats Need to Face Why Trump Won — This is an edited transcript of an episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.” You can listen to the conversation by following or subscribing to the show on the NYT Audio App, Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube, iHeartRadio or wherever you get your podcasts.
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MAGA Brocasters Grow Suspicious of the Jews — Bro podcast antisemitism — The bro-comedy podcasts that helped Trump win the election and set off much agonizing about the right's overwhelming podcast advantage have taken up a hot new topic: antisemitism and even, in one case, general Adolf Hitler apologia.
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The Faces of Trump's Anti-Immigrant Crusade — The government deported a 10-year-old American citizen with brain cancer. — ∙ Paid — First: I'll be live on Substack today at 1:00 p.m. EDT with epidemiologist Katelyn Jetelina to talk about measles, vaccines …

Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow — The news business isn't just any business — it serves a vital role in our democracy, recognized by the First Amendment. But media outlets can't serve that role if they're bankrupt.


Elon Musk's Starlink Expands Across White House Complex — Trump administration officials said the company donated the internet service, saying the gift had been vetted by the lawyer overseeing ethics issues in the White House Counsel's Office. — Starlink, the satellite internet service operated …
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For four Venezuelan friends, Alien Enemies Act cuts short an American dream — The men had just begun new lives in Dallas when officers arrived at their home and arrested them. Their relatives deny that they have any connection to the Tren de Aragua gang. — Just now
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US Institute of Peace says DOGE has broken into its building — President Trump targeted the organization and a few others in a Feb. 19 executive order aiming to shrink the federal government — Employees of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency entered the U.S. Institute …
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DOGE Staff Marches Into U.S. Institute of Peace and Evicts Its Officials
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Chinese Nationalists Praise Trump's Cuts to Voice of America — Beijing has long criticized the outlet, as well as Radio Free Asia, for highlighting human rights abuses in China. — Chinese state media is gloating about drastic budget cuts to Voice of America and Radio Free Asia …
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MRE stands against dismantling Voice of America
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Chinese state media celebrates Trump's cuts to Voice of America and Radio Free Asia
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DOJ refuses to respond to some questions from the judge who blocked Alien Enemies Act deportations — “The Government maintains that there is no justification to order the provision of additional information,” the Justice Department said in a court filing. — The Justice Department …
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Trump Administration Pushes Back Against Judge's Orders on Deportations
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Schumer is doing damage control. It isn't working. — The Senate minority leader and his aides have been talking privately with liberal groups. — Chuck Schumer is in damage-control mode. It isn't going great. — The Senate minority leader and his aides in recent days …
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Israel resumes war in Gaza with a series of massive airstrikes against Hamas — Israel resumed the war in Gaza with a series of massive airstrikes against what it described as Hamas targets all across the enclave overnight. — The big picture: The strikes come exactly two months …
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Israel Carries Out ‘Extensive Strikes’ in Gaza, Imperiling Cease-Fire
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‘Airport Theory’ Will Make You Miss Your Flight — This delusional airport trend only appeals to those who have no concept of how time or space work. Here's how to actually travel like a pro. … If airports weren't already a hellscape, TikTok has found a way to make them worse.


Almost 25k Federal Workers Reinstated, Trump Administration Says — The Trump administration for the first time acknowledged that federal agencies have recently reinstated almost 25,000 fired probationary employees, according to new court filings. — The reinstatements came after a federal judge …
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Trump Says a Recession Might Be Worth the Cost. Economists Disagree. — President Trump and his advisers say his policies may cause short-term pain but will produce big gains over time. Many economists are skeptical of those arguments. — Presidents usually do all they can to avoid recessions …


Minnesota state Sen. Eichorn arrested on suspicion of soliciting a minor — Minnesota state Sen. Justin Eichorn was arrested Monday in Bloomington for allegedly soliciting a minor for prostitution. — According to Bloomington police records, Eichorn was arrested near the 8300 block …


The Stages of Trumpist Economic Grief — Or, how Scott Bessent (sort of) became spiritual — While much of MAGA is motivated by hatred of an open society — by racism, misogyny and the desire to end all things woke — the swing voters who put Donald Trump over the top thought they were supporting …


Pentagon Removes Webpages Celebrating Racial Integration of the Armed Forces — Several webpages that celebrated the armed forces' history of racial integration have been removed from Defense Department websites, TPM has found. — An Army webpage from 2008 that lauded the 60th anniversary …
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The Political Fight of the Century — For the first time in decades, America has a chance to define its next political order. Trump offers fear, retribution, and scarcity. Liberals can stand for abundance. — Donald Trump has promised a “golden age of America.”


Trump Administration Aims to Eliminate E.P.A.'s Scientific Research Arm — More than 1,000 chemists, biologists and other scientists could be laid off under a plan to dismantle the Office of Research and Development. — The Environmental Protection Agency plans to eliminate its scientific research arm …
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Orbán bans Pride in Hungary as polls show rival surging — Fidesz says it's trying to prohibit Pride to keep children safe from the so-called LGBTQ+ agenda, but opponents say the prime minister's party is trying to create a wedge issue. — In 1997, Hungarians held the first Pride march behind the fallen Iron Curtain.
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U.S. Justice Department orders national-security lawyers to review JFK documents — The U.S. Justice Department is ordering some of its lawyers who handle sensitive national-security matters to urgently review records from the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy that are due …
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Trump's antisemitism chief shares ‘Jew card’ post from white supremacist — Leo Terrell, who runs the DOJ's antisemitism task force, shared a post from the former leader of an organization that promoted the ‘Nazification of America’ — Leo Terrell, the civil rights attorney in charge …
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There Is No Method to Trump's Madness. He's Simply Insane. — “They say an old man is twice a child,” Rosencrantz remarks in Shakespeare's Hamlet, as he and the prince of Denmark observe Polonius. It's a borrowed line, dating back to antiquity: Sophocles wrote, “For the aged man is once again a child.”


Report: mRNA vaccines are in RFK Jr's crosshairs; funding in question … Federal support for mRNA vaccine research appears in jeopardy after KFF Health News reported Sunday that officials at the National Institutes of Health have directed scientists to remove all references to the lifesaving technology from their grant applications.
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HIV could infect 1,400 infants every day due to US aid disruptions — Around 1,400 infants are being infected by HIV every day as a result of the new US administration's cuts to funding to AIDS organizations, new modeling suggests. — In an executive order issued January 20 …


H5N1 bird flu spread ‘unprecedented,’ UN agency warns — A United Nations food agency warned that the continued spread of the H5N1 bird flu virus is an unprecedented food security risk that requires a coordinated global response. — In a briefing held on Monday, the Food and Agriculture Organization …
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DOJ Asserts Trump Hypothetically Has Power To Purge All Female Agency Heads, Or Those Over 40 — The Trump Department of Justice asserted in court Tuesday that, under their theories, the President's removal power is so all-encompassing that he could fire all female agency heads, as well as those over 40 years old.
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‘Segregated facilities’ are no longer explicitly banned in federal contracts — After a recent change by the Trump administration, the federal government no longer explicitly prohibits contractors from having segregated restaurants, waiting rooms and drinking fountains.


Tesla board members, executive sell off over $100 million of stock in recent weeks — Shares of Tesla have plunged nearly 50% since a peak in mid-December. — Stickers protesting Tesla CEO Elon Musk are shown on a Tesla Supercharger, on March 12, 2025, in San Anselmo, Calif.
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MAGA already looking to anoint Vance for 2028 — Just eight months after President Trump picked JD Vance to be his vice president, Vance is already positioned to be MAGA's heir apparent for 2028. — “I think it's inevitable at this point that Vance will be the [GOP] nominee in 2028,” …
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ICE Detains Prominent Immigration Activist in Grim Sign for Future — Immigrations and Customs Enforcement has detained a prominent immigration advocate in Colorado. — Agents stopped Jeanette Vizguerra Monday in the parking lot of a Target where she works.
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Trump and Putin agree to start talks for a ceasefire in Ukraine — President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin have agreed to start talks toward a ceasefire in Ukraine, the White House said. — The two leaders spoke by phone Tuesday morning and discussed the need for …
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